Pray for Me

April 7, 2014 | 1 book mentioned

After working on his novel Family Life for seven years, Akhil Sharma began to lose his mind. Whenever he sat down to write, he began having panic attacks, the kind that left his chest feeling “constantly bruised” for months on end. Eventually, he hit on a solution: he learned to take his mind off his novel by praying for other people.

is a staff writer for The Millions. He lives in New York.